The coach has been in charge of Les Bleus since 2012 and led the team to glory at the World Cup in 2018 but will leave the job when his contract expires following next year's tournament in North America.

Deschamps - one of just three men to win the World Cup as a player and a coach - told French TV channel TF1: "I’ve been here since 2012, I’m scheduled until 2026, the next World Cup, but it will stop there because it has to stop at some point.

"It could be [seen as] an announcement, even though I’m not here for that. I’ve done my time with the same desire, the same passion to keep the French team at the highest level, but 2026 is very good.

"To have been here already for as many years as I have, and to go until 2026, that will be 14 years so that will be a lot. We never want it to end when it’s a beautiful thing, but we also have to know how to say stop, there is a life after. I don’t know what it will be, but it will be very good too.

"Afterwards, the most important thing is that the French team remains at the top, as it has been for many years."

Deschamps has led France to three major finals during his time as coach, although he lost the showpieces of Euro 2016 and the 2022 World Cup to Portugal and Argentina respectively.